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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-150659"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMGN"
cik: "0000318154"
company_name: "AMGEN INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T18:39:11.339648+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Amgen shareholders elect all 13 director nominees, approve executive compensation and auditor ratification

## Summary
- All 13 director nominees elected; Greg C. Garland received highest votes against at 48.8M shares.
- Advisory vote to approve executive compensation passed with 371,994,642 votes for (94% of cast).
- Stockholders selected one-year frequency for future advisory votes on executive compensation.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2023 passed with 438,448,567 votes for (95% of cast).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-150659
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMGN
- cik: 0000318154
- company_name: AMGEN INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/0001193125-23-150659-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/d483298d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  AMGEN INC shareholders approved Advisory Vote to Approve Our Executive Compensation at the 2023-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-19
  source text: The advisory vote to approve our executive compensation was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/0001193125-23-150659-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AMGEN INC shareholders approved Ratification of Selection of Independent Registered Public Accountants at the 2023-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-19
  source text: Ernst & Young LLP was ratified as the Company’s independent registered public accountants for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/0001193125-23-150659-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AMGEN INC shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Frequency of Future Stockholder Advisory Votes to Approve Executive Compensation at the 2023-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-19
  source text: One year was selected for the advisory vote on the frequency of future stockholder advisory votes to approve executive compensation based upon the following votes: One Year: 390,912,836 Two Years: 888,684 Three Years: 5,869,436 Abstain: 816,032 Broker Non-Votes: 64,052,659
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/0001193125-23-150659-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AMGEN INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-19
  source text: Each of the following 13 nominees for director were elected to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor is elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier retirement, resignation, disqualification, removal or death.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000119312523150659/0001193125-23-150659-index.htm

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